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Harvested at 90-day intervals, the cured "buds" fetched as much as $6,000 a pound in New York City, where most of the suburban Atlanta crop was shipped. Police say a single Douse could yield more than $1 rnill.ion in profit a year......Growers may have had several reasons for setting up shop in subdivisions like Summit Chase here in Snellville. A key one, though, is the privacy ethos. Darrell Lamb, a local high schooler, says the smell of pot would "slap me across the face" as he and some friends shot arrows in the nearby woods. But he never called the police......Pre-bust, the biggest gossip in the neighborhood was how the house at 2851 Creekwood fetched one of the highest sales prices in the subdivision, $219,000. Post-bust, speculation centered on whether it would affect property values. Source: h~://abcnews.go.com/LtS/CSM/staz_•~'id=2022922 :Hotline launched to combat marijuana grow ops toronto.ctv.ca: In an effort to combat a rapidly increasing problem, Toronto police have launched a hotline for tipsters to report marijuana grow operations. In 2003, police busted 140 grow ops across the GTA, but that number more than doubled last year to 287. Officers raided two more large operations i.n the region last week. Police say grow ops are a dangerous problem plaguing neighborhoods. Now, they are asking the public to anonymously report any information on the drug activity so they can shut down. the illegal operations. Both police and members of the Chinese business community ai-e trying to get the word out to residents of Asian descent in particular who may have information on those linked to the organized crimes......McTeague says electrical safety authorities who notice spikes in electricity use should be mandated to report it to police. "We can pinpoint exactly where people are using unusual levels, high levels, unsafe levels, of electricity," he said. "Chances are there's probably marijuana grow operations." The hotline number is 41 b-808-3681. All information will be kept confidential and police won't ask for the caller's identity Source: http://toonto. ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070201/grow_op_hotline_070201/2007 0201 ?hub=TorontoHome Grow Op Criminals Using Deadly Booby Traps to Foil. Intruders Friday November 24, 2006 The hazards found in that massive n1ar~~juana apartment r~ ow_op on Thursday may have been mainly to building residents, a consequence of strained and overburdened electrical outlets that could easily have started a fre.....Police say organized crime has planted roots in the industry and that's raised things to a whole new level. And they warn those behind the illegal agriculture are getting increasingly nasty about protecting their investments. In addition to the usual pistols, cops have been confronted with caches of homemade bombs, machine guns and suspects wearing bulletproof vests or body armor. What the authorities are calling "pot pirates" often set booby traps to catch intrudea-s. And soiree of them are both astounding and potentially lethal.....But not everything is relegated to lethal force. In one case a suspect in full police regalia turned up at a pot plantation, trying to rip off a competitor. "He was a pot pirate trying to come in and steal someone else's illegal contraband." Rae refuses to reveal how her people avoid the traps, but admits "there's always something new coming along.".... 11 75A-106